GARDEN FEATURE AT NGR SJ 41366 34472

This garden feature, located at National Grid Reference SJ 41366 34472, dates from around 1826 to 1842 and was created for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring. It is constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar and snecked rock-faced sandstone, consisting of two sections. The upper section is a rectangular bastion with a corbelled parapet, while the lower section features a buttressed revetment wall with a coped parapet, some of which was dislodged and lying on the ground during a resurvey in February 1987. The front of the bastion has an infilled Tudor arch. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring was an enthusiastic amateur gardener who traveled extensively in Europe, and he is believed to have designed much of the garden and park at Oteley, including this feature. His house, Oteley Park, was built in an Elizabethan style on the site of an earlier building between 1826 and 1830 and was extended in 1842, but it was demolished around 1960.